Shrinking Violets: The Secret Life of Shyness

Author: Meteorologist Joe Moran, PhD Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 280 A deeply perceptive and beautifully written cultural history of shyness, from one of our most astute observers of the everyday Shyness is a pervasive human trait: even most extroverts know what it is like to stand tongue-tied at the fringe of an unfamiliar group or flush with embarrassment at being the unwelcome center of attention. And yet the cultural history of shyness has remained largely unwritten--until now. With incisiveness,...Read more